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20 Reasons Why Oracle is the World's Largest Open Source Company

Oracle might be the least likely choice of anyone's list of top open source companies but it is. Find out all about it.

It's true. Oracle is now, with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the world's largest purveyor of open source software. Does that surprise you? It did me too, until I started digging and realized that Oracle has a history of supporting free and open source software. Their support didn't start with their purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. It goes back into ancient times--Internetly speaking, of course.